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1->''Ruby finds herself facing her end. As she pushes her Semblance to new heights, the world breaks. In one fluid, crystallising moment everything changes. A 23 year old Ruby Rose, one of the deadliest hunters on Remnant, spills out of the void and into the dorm of team RWBY, including a 15 year old version of herself. A hunter in a world of unknowing prey.''
2-->'''— Summary'''
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4''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10813469/1/Remnant-s-Reclaimer Remnant's Reclaimer]]'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6253787/Hysterical-Clerical-Hijinks Hysterical Clerical Hijinks]] is a ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' TimeTravel or PeggySue fanfic.
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6The main premise is that a [[FutureBadass future version]] of Ruby, referred to as Rose, finally kills BigBad Cinder after a [[BadFuture war in future Remnant]] that kills many of her friends, including her beloved sister Yang. Cinder's final attack, [[TakingYouWithMe in an attempt to kill Ruby]], instead [[GoneHorriblyWrong sends Ruby back in time]] to when she attended Beacon Academy- specifically, to the past Team RWBY.
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8Now Ruby and Rose, in addition to the rest of the team, take the opportunity to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong and prevent Cinder from causing the BadFuture Rose hails from. Which, granted, is easier said than done.
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10Is now a featured fic in ''Fanfic/WeissReacts''. Also, [[DeadFic it hasn't been updated in a long time]].
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12%% While we haven't reached an official consensus regarding the use of "Future!Ruby" vs. "Rose" on examples on this page, it might be a good idea to use the former when the time-travel aspect of her identity is relevant or when Present!Ruby acts differently from her in the example, and in any case to consistently use the same name within any single example of the same trope.
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14!!Remnant's Reclaimer contains examples of the following tropes, which may include unmarked spoilers for ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
15* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible, [[AccidentalPun no pun intended]].
16** [[spoiler:Blake can arch her back like a cat, beyond the limits of human flexibility. She downplays and justifies the standard version of the trope by practicing yoga.]]
17** When [[GrievousHarmWithABody Yang uses Dove Bronzewing as a bludgeon to beat up Team CRDL]], Present!Ruby comments that "People really should ''not'' fit together like that," and the narration describes Team CRDL as bent into [[AlienGeometries non-Euclidean geometry]].
18* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Future!Crescent Rose has one made of "dust reinforced steel with a small diamond edge."
19* AffectionateNickname: Rose calls Ruby "little Rose," the same as their mother used to call them.
20* AlternateUniverse: The fic's timeline only resembles canon RWBY up until the end of Vol. 2, and information presented after that does not appear to factor into the fic.
21* AmusingInjuries: When Yang beats up Team CRDL, Rose mentions that she won't stop Yang because Rose is "extremely vindictive" and finds it "fun to watch." One of Team CRDL closes the chapter with "''[[UselessSpleen GAH, MY SPLEEN!]]''"
22* AnArmAndALeg: Future!Weiss is said to have lost an arm by the time Ruby makes her trip back.
23* AsYouKnow: In Chapter 12, Rose explains to Yang (and readers) what [[GiantSpider Arachne]] Grimm are. Yang says she already knew, but Rose replies that she was just checking, since she was recounting a ([[TimeyWimeyBall potential]]) future incident.
24* AxCrazy: Cinder, towards the end of the war. Once it becomes obvious that she's not going to win, she snaps and starts lashing out blindly, [[TakingYouWithMe trying to destroy everything she can]].
25* BadassFamily: As per canon, the extended Rose/Xiao Long/Branwen family is extremely badass. When on missions together, nothing short of the [[HeroKiller Legendary Grimm]] even stand a chance.
26* BadFuture: Rose mentions during her debriefing that Vale has all but been destroyed, because of the war.
27** She goes into greater detail later on, and it's really not pretty, if Rose's rather obvious issues are anything to go by. But if you really must know what exactly happened: [[spoiler: Taiyang, Ozpin, and the Beacon staff members as well as about half the students were poisoned during an end-of-year feast when the White Fang took the cooks' families hostage. Weiss has lost an arm. Yang is dead. Blake has spent the last four months in a torture-induced coma. Vale has essentially ceased to be a major power, to the point that Rose is ''glad'' the other major powers have stepped in.]]
28* BelligerentSexualTension: [[spoiler:Future!Ruby describes Yang and Weiss as]] "the textbook definition of sexual tension."
29-->[[spoiler:'''Future!Ruby:''' You are quite fucking ''literally'' fire and ice.]]
30* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Schnees.
31* BrokenBird: Rose. [[spoiler:Losing all your friends to years of war will do that to a person.]]
32* ButtMonkey: [[TheBully Cardin Winchester]]. Given the [[{{Jerkass}} usual]] [[FantasticRacism tropes]] attached to him, though, [[AssholeVictim it's difficult to feel any sympathy]].
33* CanineCompanion: After the near-disastrous incident with Cardin, Zwei apparently has taken it upon himself to become Velvet's "unofficial protector" against bullies. It helps that the rabbit Faunus adores him so much she spoils him rotten.
34* CanonDiscontinuity: As this fanfic was written before Volume 3 of WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} aired, a lot of events and characters in the fic are different from canon.
35** [[spoiler:Yang dies instead of Pyrrha in Rose's future, Weiss loses her arm instead of Yang, and Ruby loses her eye instead of Cinder (Cinder and Roman are personally killed one after the other by Ruby). Also, Cinder killed the White Fang's previous leader in a coup in Future!Ruby's backstory, while in canon the White Fang's previous leader, Blake's still-alive father, stepped down by choice]].
36** Yang, Qrow, and possibly Taiyang have different Semblances [[labelnote:FanFic Semblances]]Yang: immunity to fire and lava; Qrow: sound relocation; Taiyang: protective barriers.[[/labelnote]] than they do in canon [[labelnote:Canon Semblances]]Yang: converting received damage into strength (V2 C04); Qrow: bestowing bad luck (V4 C08); Taiyang: unspecified (as of V4 C12)[[/labelnote]].
37** Cinder is portrayed as the BigBad, as Salem hadn't been revealed yet, and Mercury and Emerald have different surnames in this fic ("Selth" and "Harron") than in canon (Black and Sustrai).
38** Weiss's and Blake's relatives are changed from canon, [[labelnote:Changes]]In canon, Weiss has an older sister named Winter (V3 C03), a younger brother named Whitley (V4 C02), and a father named Jacques Schnee (V4 C02, pre-marriage surname Gele); in this fanfic, Weiss is the elder sister (her age is unchanged), Winter is described as younger than Weiss, and their mother became sterile after delivering Winter, so there's no Whitley. Blake and her canon parents (V04 C05) are described in Chapter 28 as having different Faunus traits than in their canon presentation.[[/labelnote]] and [[LastNameBasis Lie Ren]] has a surviving grandfather and is treated as if his name uses Eastern naming conventions (family name Lie, personal name Ren) when canon (V4 C10) reveals that Lie is his personal name and his past-deceased parents had the surname Ren.
39** In this fanfic, [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]] don't mix-and-match traits from different-species parents and have at most one major trait if one parent is human, but add together traits from same-species Faunus parents. Canon Faunus (V4 [=WoR=]: Faunus) have only one animal feature, which matches one parent if both are same-species Faunus or one is Faunus and the other human and is random if both parents are different-species Faunus.
40* CaughtMonologuing: Rose made the mistake of stopping to lecture Cinder instead of finishing her off, which gave Cinder time enough to prepare her final attack.
41* CerebusSyndrome[=/=]DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the original series.
42** Canon!Cinder Fall had the goal of [[spoiler:stealing the remaining powers of the Fall Maiden who was hidden in Beacon Academy after a prior attack by Cinder left her in a coma]]. In this fic, her aim is to [[spoiler:become the queen of Vale, despite the fact that Vale hasn't been a monarchy for over 500 years]], and is willing to murder thousands of people in order to get it. She also [[spoiler:is responsible for the violent direction that the White Fang has been taking in recent years, having secretly killed the previous leader in a coup]].
43** Weiss' father. Rose flat-out calls him a slaver and the most morally repugnant being on Remnant, short of Cinder herself. Weiss doesn't take this well, [[spoiler:especially once Rose provides video evidence of her father's depravities. Thankfully, she gets better]].
44* ChekhovsGag: Before Rose's "[[TrainingFromHell super-secret training trip]]," Yang was briefly noted to have finished doing laundry. After [[spoiler:the incident listed under IllBeInMyBunk]], Yang [[spoiler:comes out of the shower wearing Ruby's (smaller) clothes to provoke Weiss, and (after [[LuminescentBlush Weiss flees]]) Blake points out that Weiss has the memory to remember that [[SpottingTheThread Yang had no reason not to wear her own clothes instead]]]].
45* ChewingTheScenery: Chapter 29 opens with Rose and Glynda watching [[GenkiGirl Nora]] leave [[OneOfTheKids Taiyang]]'s training class. [[StereotypeFlip Taiyang cries while Nora plays the "grizzled, stoic hero saying goodbye to her ladylove."]] Hammers and explosions forever, baby.
46* ChickMagnet: To Taiyang's chagrin, Future!Ruby "[[UnusualEuphemism has already grown into]] [[InTheBlood her Xiao Long genes]]."
47* ClosetKey: [[spoiler:Rose talks Yang into [[LoveEpiphany realizing she has a crush on Weiss]], and informs her that, due to Weiss's upbringing, Yang might have to be a Closet Key to Weiss herself before Weiss can reciprocate her feelings]].
48* CoolAirship: Qrow's dropship, the ''Corvus'', though its coolness isn't quite on display yet.
49* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Weiss's father's [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil treatment of Faunus laborers]] is expanded upon in this fic.
50* CountryMatters: Chapter 18 uses an adjective form to describe a wing attack used by Izhar against Rose.
51* CovertPervert: Blake, but Future!Ruby repeatedly takes opportunities to out her to the rest of her team.
52* CrazyPrepared: The Huntsmen and Huntresses even have [[TrustPassword a code and a passphrase]] for {{Time Travel}}lers!
53-->'''Future!Ruby:''' Situation 'Reelection' period seven years, four months. Confirmation code: 'Clipped wings, further flight.'\
54'''Ozpin:''' Confirmed. Level two confirmation code: 'Ice burns underfoot.'\
55'''Future!Ruby:''' Level two confirmation: 'Sky burns overhead.'\
56'''Ozpin:''' Confirmed. [[NotSoStoic My god.]]
57* CrushingHandshake: [[TheBigGuy Taiyang]] and [[GirlyBruiser Nora]] give each other one when they meet; neither is hurt by doing so.
58* CurbStompBattle:
59** Future!Ruby vs Future!Roman Torchwick. Torchwick didn't even last a whole minute.
60** Future!Ruby takes on all of Team RWBY at once in a match, ''bare-handed''. They don't even last a minute, or land a single hit on her. Somehow, Pyrrha and Ren aren't surprised by the match's outcome.
61* CutenessProximity:
62** Just like in canon, Weiss's initial hostility to Zwei disintegrates within half a minute of exposure to the dog, after which she starts cooing and fawning over him. And judging by Rose feeling deja vu at the scene, this had happened in her timeline as well.
63** Ruby's reaction to Blake's cat ears is to {{squee}} and try to [[TheGlomp tackle-hug]] her.
64* DeadFic: The last update to the fic was Chapter 30 on March 26, 2016.
65* DeflectorShields: Taiyang Xiao Long's Semblance creates force fields that can block any single type of attack.
66* DidYouJustHaveSex: [[spoiler:Taiyang's horrified and Qrow's amused reactions to Rose's discarded clothes left behind in Glynda Goodwitch's office]], and [[spoiler:Team RWBY's reaction to the photo of said finding taken by Ozpin]].
67* DespairEventHorizon: Upon seeing [[TheDreaded Izhar the Ravager]] (or one of the "lesser" Drakes), one White Fang just drops his sword and falls to his knees, crying TearsOfFear until its acid spit kills him.
68* DetectEvil: Inverted - Lie Ren can sense the innate [[LightIsGood light and goodness]] in [[BadassFamily all of Ruby's family]].
69* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: When visiting Rose in the hospital, Blake hums Ruby's theme song.
70* DropWhatYouAreDoing: Ozpin [[NotSoStoic drops his coffee mug]] when he first sees [[FutureBadass Future!Ruby]] and [[StrongFamilyResemblance mistakes her for]] [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest Summer]].
71* EmbarrassingNickname: After [[spoiler:getting a heart-shaped acid burn on his ass, Taiyang]] is labeled "Sweetcheeks".
72* EvilPlan: Cinder made several in both timelines.
73** [[spoiler: Future!Cinder's decades-long plan completely wiped out the Huntsmen and Huntresses of Vale. She killed nearly half the students of Beacon in one sitting by poisoning a graduation feast (of the staff, only Dr. Oobleck survives) - and Future!Ruby describes this as "one of the least of her crimes." She repeatedly unleashed Grimm on towns and villages in order to undercut faith in Hunters, then "rebelled" with the support of much of the population of Vale behind her. On top of that, she prevented the other three kingdoms from interfering by declaring it a civil war, tying them up politically. The only reason Cinder lost was because of Future!Team [=RWBY=], who she inadvertently trained to become deadly huntresses by [[WeHaveReserves sending fodder at them]], enabling them to [[TaughtByExperience last long and become strong enough]] to [[MookDepletion deplete her officer base]] – if they hadn't been there, Cinder would have won easily]].
74** [[spoiler: Future!Ruby and co's present-timeline covert-op in Thousand Homes allowed her to obtain, among other data, files for Present!Cinder's "Operation Maskfall," a plan to assassinate [[MissingMom Raven]] [[IWorkAlone Branwen]]. True to its name, it contains very specific details on [[{{Teleportation}} Raven's abilities]] and [[MagicAIsMagicA limitations]] and contingencies to exploit those weaknesses and enable [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters the White Fang]] to kill her]]. Future!Ruby says that this is ''just one of'' Cinder's evil plans, and that others are ''even better''.
75* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Taiyang deadpans this when he sees [[{{Kaiju}} Izhar the Ravager]].
76* ExplainExplainOhCrap:
77** In Chapter 12, Rose barrages Yang with a series of questions about [[spoiler:her treatment of Weiss, to which Yang responds with [[BelligerentSexualTension complaints that her support is unappreciated and Weiss is frustrating her]]]]. Rose finishes by [[spoiler:[[ClosetKey asking if Yang wants Weiss to find her beautiful]]]], to which Yang answers, "[[spoiler:''[[BigYes Yes!]]'' [[LoveEpiphany That's ex-...]]]] ''[[BigOMG ohhhh myyyy goddd.]]''"
78** In Chapter 14, Qrow says that [[spoiler:[[ChildrenAreInnocent Ruby]] being on a team with [[GoodBadGirl Yang]]]] made it inevitable that [[spoiler:Future!Ruby would be a lesbian]]. Taiyang questions this, and after answering Qrow's prompts, realizes that [[spoiler:Yang's female friends' visits to their home didn't end with just innocent sleepovers]]...
79* EyeColorChange: Yang's and Taiyang's [[labelnote:Canonicity?]]Yang's are confirmed in the "Yellow" Trailer and in Volume 1 of canon ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', but Taiyang's are shown in Volume 3, Episode 12 to be light blue and not shown to change color up to the end of Volume 4.[[/labelnote]] eyes change from lilac to red when they're angered.
80* EyePatchAfterTimeSkip: Future!Ruby had lost her left eye in a mishap during a routine skirmish.
81* FamedInStory: Exploited in the BadFuture when Future![[{{Deuteragonist}} Team JNPR]] were pulled from frontline combat and forced to grandstand their reputations in order to serve as {{Hope Bringer}}s to the general population, because the public's fear and despair would otherwise have kept attracting and empowering the Grimm. Future!Ruby mentally credits them for having done at least half of what the government demagogues said they did.
82* FeedItABomb: Taiyang throws Malwr down Izhar's gullet. The results are... [[ThrowDownTheBomblet about what]] [[LudicrousGibs you'd expect]].
83* FlatJoy: Blake's reaction when Yang says Blake will also reap the benefits of [[PluckyGirl Present!Ruby]]'s [[TheGlomp tackle hugs]].
84* FlippingTheBird: Multiple characters do this on various occasions, sometimes petty, sometimes not so much.
85* {{Foreshadowing}}: In Chapter 15, Rose mentions that [[BruiserWithASoftCenter Taiyang]] would get along well with [[GenkiGirl Nora Valkyrie]], while Glynda remarks that she'd be surprised if the two didn't destroy Beacon Academy within the year. The two meet in Chapter 28, and in Chapters 29 and 30, their training sessions scare to death both [[SternTeacher Glynda]] and [[CloudCuckooLandersMinder Lie Ren]].
86* FreudianThreat: Taiyang expects Glynda to "freeze, then consequently shatter, his testicles" if she ever caught him peeping at her (which he was more or less doing at the time, what with him staring at her bouncing breasts). She does catch him... [[SubvertedTrope but instead]] she threatens to [[EyeScream gouge his eyes out]].
87* FutureBadass: Ruby Rose. [[spoiler:Her contribution as a whole was apparently so great that Rose was fast-tracked to become high commander of Vale's forces (whatever was left of them, anyway), to her own surprise.]]
88* FutureMeScaresMe: Whenever Future!Ruby gets a murderous look in her eye or reminds Team RWBY that she is a cold-blooded killer, Present!Ruby shivers. Yang's not happy about what Ruby becomes, either.
89* GenderInclusiveWriting: Instead of calling the heroes "Huntsmen" and "Huntresses" like canon ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' does, this fanfic uses "Hunter" to refer to both sexes, like the official Japanese dub.
90* GirlOnGirlIsHot: [[CovertPervert Blake]] certainly seems to think so!
91* AGlassInTheHand: Glynda's reaction when informed of the near-disaster caused by [[TheBully Cardin]]'s [[FantasticRacism bullying Velvet]].
92* TheGlomp: When [[spoiler:Blake reveals her Faunus status to her team]], Future!Ruby has to grab Present!Ruby to stop her from doing this, but Present!Ruby eventually slips free and glomps [[spoiler:Blake and Weiss]].
93* GoodScarsEvilScars: The results of the Izhar fight leaves Qrow with a thin scar along the side of his face. As good as he already looked to begin with, this somehow actually ''improves'' upon said looks!
94-->'''[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe Taiyang]]:''' Only him. Only he could get hit in the face with ''acid'' and come out prettier than he was before.
95* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:Blake]] twice shows signs of jealousy when presented evidence of [[spoiler:Rose's "fun" with Glynda]].
96* GrievousHarmWithABody: An ''epically'' pissed-off Yang (see ScarsAreForever below) decides to deal with Cardin Winchester's sexism by beating him unconscious with his own partner.
97* GunNut: Weiss snarks that Present!Ruby would replace her living teammates with talking guns if she could.
98* HeroKiller: Any Grimm that is so powerful and infamous as to have [[NominalImportance been given a name]] is this by default.
99* HulkSpeak: Qrow does this at one point to mock Taiyang, who flips him off for it.
100* HurricaneOfPuns: Future!Yang had given one off when she discovered that she was lava-proof.
101-->'''Future!Ruby (quoting Future!Yang):''' Hey guys! It's unbe-''lava''-ble; in fact, it might just ''magma'' day.
102* ICallHimMisterHappy: [[GenderInvertedTrope Yang named her breasts]] [[GratuitousGerman "Ein" ("One," her right) and "Zwei" ("Two," her left)]]. When questioned about this, she says she named [[PreciousPuppy Zwei]] after her boob and not the other way around. Yang then asks Future!Ruby if she named her "baps," even as a joke, but Future!Ruby denies having done so.
103* IllBeInMyBunk: A variation - After Rose's TrainingFromHell, a later relaxing Weiss manages to avoid sharing her dwindling supply of bath salts with Yang by [[spoiler:telling her that their shower has multiple different pressure settings. Yang almost immediately declares that she's going to take a bath, then hastens to clarify to Weiss (and Blake, who's also there) that [[ThatCameOutWrong she didn't mean]] ''that'' [[ShowerOfLove kind of bath]]]]...
104* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Future!Ruby's finishing blow against Future!Cinder Fall in Chapter 1.
105* IShallTauntYou: Taiyang does this to provoke the rage-maddened [[HeroKiller Izhar]] [[RedBaron the]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ravager]] at a critical moment, just so he could [[spoiler:throw [[ThrowDownTheBomblet Malwr]] straight down its throat]].
106* LamePunReaction:
107** Future!Ruby has a pained look on her face when recounting Future!Yang's [[HurricaneOfPuns lava puns]] to Present!Yang.
108** When [[CatGirl Blake]] complains about [[TrainingFromHell Future!Ruby's training plan]], Future!Ruby calls Blake a [[HaveAGayOldTime pussy]]. Blake [[DeathGlare glares at her]], [[PungeonMaster Yang]] laughs for a moment, and Future!Ruby admits, "That one gets old ''really'' fast," a sentiment with which Blake agrees.
109* LesCollaborateurs: Going by Rose's rant to Taiyang at the end of Chapter 15, in her timeline [[spoiler:Cardin Winchester]] defected to Cinder's side at some point. She's rational enough, however, to not punish his present self for actions that he has yet to even contemplate the possibility of committing.
110* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Weiss's reaction to [[spoiler:Future!Ruby "[[ScrewYourself seducing]]" Present!Ruby. Present!Ruby and Yang concur, but [[LuminescentBlush Blake]]'s delayed reaction is noticed by her teammates, which highlights her CovertPervert status again]].
111* LightningBruiser: Izhar the Ravager is huge, has strength and toughness befitting its size, is fast and agile despite its bulk, and can attack at range by spitting acid that strips humans[=/=]Faunus to skeletons and melts through stone.
112* LittleBitBeastly: Blake, even more so than in canon. Besides her ears, her [[spoiler:[[AnimalEyes eyes also have slitted pupils like a cat's]], which she covers up via contacts, and is also capable of purring]]. Rose of course already knows about this, though the rest of her team doesn't. (Yet.) She also implied she has a tail.
113** Partially [[TheReveal revealed]] in Chapter 23. They know she's a Faunus, though she hasn't yet revealed [[spoiler:her eyes or the purring]].
114** As of Chapter 28, Yang and Weiss are aware of [[spoiler:the eyes.]] It was also stated that Faunus with multiple major (i.e. obvious) traits are rare, and tend to have more of the subtle ones (which can include increased strength or senses, dangersense, and hollow bones depending on species) as a result. Blake states she hasn't heard of anyone with as many major traits as she does.
115* LongList:
116-->'''[[ChildrenAreInnocent Present!Ruby]]:''' [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder Who would try to kill us at school?]]\
117'''[[FutureBadass Future!Ruby]]:''' [[TheUsualAdversaries The Grimm]], [[GangBangers gangsters]], [[LesCollaborateurs traitors]], [[ProfessionalKiller assassins]], [[BigBad Cinder]], [[EliteMooks her]] [[MookLieutenant lieutenants]], [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters the White Fang]], [[TheDragon Roman Torchwick]], [[PsychoForHire Neo Politan]]...
118* LudicrousGibs: The natural result of [[spoiler: swallowing a '''Reusable''' [[ThrowDownTheBomblet Kinetic-explosion Hammer]]]], as Izhar learns to its cost.
119* MadeOfExplodium:
120** [[GreenRocks Dust]] remains as volatile as in canon; [[TheBully Cardin Winchester]] accidentally causes an explosion at Beacon Academy that barely avoids setting off enough stores of Dust to kill hundreds of other students (and he is subject to disciplinary action for doing so), and when Rose and her new coworkers carry out a black op at a Dust mine, the Dust factors in as both a weapon and a hazard.
121** Taiyang's weapon Malwr contains what is known as a Reusable Kinetic Grenade. Without his [[DeflectorShields Semblance]] to enable him to shut it off manually, it would never ''stop'' exploding.
122* MassOhCrap:
123** Any group to whom Future!Ruby explains her BadFuture, especially [[WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied their fates in said future]].
124** Present!Team RWBY (minus Present!Ruby), when they see Future!Ruby calmly cleaning ''human'' blood from her own [[SinisterScythe Crescent]] [[SniperRifle Rose]] as if she was perfectly accustomed to doing so.
125** Various unnamed students' reactions when Rose explains that [[TheBully Cardin]] almost accidentally blew them up.
126** After the Thousand Homes black-op, Team RWBY are shocked that Rose survived [[NominalImportance Izhar]] [[TheDreaded the]] [[HeroKiller Ravager]].
127** Future!Ruby [[InvokedTrope invokes this]] during the training trip by [[spoiler:pretending to [[ScrewYourself seduce Present!Ruby]] [[ItAmusedMe in front of]] [[DudeNotFunny her teammates]]]].
128* MixAndMatchWeapon: Future!Ruby's [[SinisterScythe Crescent]] [[SniperRifle Rose]] is an [[MidSeasonUpgrade upgraded version of Present!Ruby]]'s with a [[SerratedBladeOfPain serrated scythe blade]] and a [[DepletedPhlebotinumShells Dust-cartridge]] [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolver barrel]] based on [[RoyalRapier Weiss's Myrtenaster]] ([[NoodleIncident but no]] [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]]).
129* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Future!Ruby and Present!Ruby bond over weapons and cookies.
130* NamedWeapons: Besides Team [=RWBY=]'s, Taiyang's hammer is named Malwr and Qrow's scythe is named [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Orcus]].
131* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[NominalImportance Izhar]] [[HeroKiller the Ravager]]. Rose is a heroine, but Lie Ren notes that her code name "Crimson Harvest" is too uncommon and ominous for her to be anything less than a [[TheAce top-ranking]] badass.
132* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Future!Cinder's obsession with killing Team RWBY proves to be her undoing, causing them to become the most powerful and experienced Hunter team alive.
133* NoJustNoReaction: Rose deliberately invokes this to troll present!Team RWBY, Taiyang, and Qrow.
134-->'''Yang:''' If I wasn't so [[ParentalSexualitySquick disturbed]], I'd probably be impressed at how easy you just psyched out dad and uncle Qrow. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Especially]] [[TheStoic uncle Qrow]].
135* NoodleIncident: Several are mentioned with varying levels of detail.
136** [[TaughtByExperience Future!Ruby]] tells [[GunNut Present!Ruby]] she ''knows'' adding [[FireBreathingWeapon a flamethrower]] [[MixAndMatchWeapon to]] [[SinisterScythe Crescent]] [[SniperRifle Rose]] is [[HybridOverkillAvoidance a bad idea]].
137** [[spoiler:The morning after seducing Glynda]], Rose jokes to [[spoiler:Taiyang that [[GetTheeToANunnery she'd been to a nunnery]], but [[ThePornomancer the nuns just couldn't keep up with her]]. [[SarcasmBlind Taiyang's response]] implies that [[ReallyGetsAround he really did do such a thing]], to Rose's surprise. Qrow says he had never seen [[SourPrudes a seventy-year-old woman so angry]]]].
138** Taiyang once used [[ThrowDownTheBomblet his Malwr]] to [[MundaneUtility hammer some nails]]. 3/4 of a dorm barracks had to be rebuilt from the ground up.
139** Future!Ruby wants to check on [[CompanionCube Crescent Rose]] on her way to the Dust mine mission, but doesn't want to risk it falling out of the dropship "again, once was more than enough."
140* {{Nosebleed}}: [[spoiler:Blake]] gets one when [[spoiler:Rose replies to Weiss's remark about having "seen people eat at [Glynda's] desk" with a comeback implying a particular sex act]].
141* TheNoseKnows: After seeing Future!Ruby, [[PreciousPuppy Zwei]] can recognize her with a few sniffs.
142* NotDistractedByTheSexy: When [[spoiler:Rose strips to her underwear in Glynda Goodwitch's office, Glynda]] is as stoic and unimpressed as expected and deflects all come-on lines with [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan rebuttals]]. [[spoiler:Rose eventually does succeed]].
143* NotHyperbole:
144** Rose scolds Qrow for his vice of smoking, saying it will kill him. Qrow think it's SmugStraightEdge behavior until she tells him he died of lung cancer in her future.
145** Going over some plans that she'd acquired in the future, Rose comments they have Cinder's name all over them. Because she actually signed the documents.
146* NotSoAboveItAll: After [[spoiler:Rose seduces Glynda, Rose gets a message on her scroll the next morning with a photo of Taiyang and Qrow in Glynda's office, with a dismayed Taiyang holding Rose's forgotten clothes and Qrow laughing his ass off. Given to whom she had explained her situation, Rose deduces that Ozpin took and sent the photo]].
147* NotSoStoic: Happens twice to Ozpin. The first is when he mistakes Rose for [[StrongFamilyResemblance her mother Summer]], so shocked that he ''[[DropWhatYouAreDoing drops his coffee mug]]''. The second is when he learns of Cinder's attack on Beacon in the future.
148-->Ozpin looks ''apocalyptic''. Rose can see the tell-tale signs of his Semblance activating subconsciously; shadowy tendrils spreading out from his iris, turning his eyes a haunting, eerie black. His white-knuckle grip on his cane is another indication of his anger. But nothing is more indicative of his rage than the ferocious snarling set of his mouth, his teeth bared in a primal expression of fury.\
149"They ''dare'' to hurt my students?" Ozpin's voice echoes around the room, sharp and cold, akin to a blade being drawn from it's scabbard.
150* NotWhatItLooksLike: Weiss's explanation for a SuggestiveCollision. Blake replies, "[[LampshadeHanging They always say that.]]"
151* OhMyGods: Several characters swear by [[GreenRocks Dust]], and later by [[Creator/MontyOum Oum]]. The latter almost became a HarsherInHindsight in the wake of Monty Oum's death. One reviewer, however, suggested that the author keep using it, as a tribute to the man himself.
152* OldMaster: An off-screen example is referenced when Lie Ren thinks of "the most dangerous man in the world, his grandfather, Vacuo's [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant Slumbering]] [[RedBaron Dragon]]."
153* OnceDoneNeverForgotten:
154** Defied by Future!Ruby when she decides that this is a reason ''not'' to seduce Glynda Goodwitch in her office while Taiyang lies fainted in the same room.
155** Future!Ruby and Present!Blake discuss the former's (and her teammates') reactions to finding out about [[CovertPervert Blake]]'s ''[[ShowWithinAShow Ninjas of Love]]'' [[PornStash novel series]].
156--->'''Present!Blake:''' I'd never hear the end of it.\
157'''Future!Ruby:''' You never do.
158* OneSteveLimit: Future!Ruby takes the name Rouge Rose (or just "Rose" for short), Ruby and Yang's older sister, as a cover identity in order to avoid name confusion with her younger self. Initially and temporarily defied by Present!Ruby, who doesn't want to be "weird" and tell people not to call Future!Ruby by her proper name.
159* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: See FutureMeScaresMe and NotSoStoic above.
160* OutrunTheFireball: Trying to do this is what caused Ruby to travel into the past.
161* ParentalSexualitySquick:
162** A variation - neither Ruby, Yang, nor Taiyang are comfortable with Future!Ruby acting like TheTease, or with [[spoiler: her spending the night with Glynda Goodwitch]].
163** A straighter example occurs when Rose says she'd rather not hear about [[NoodleIncident Taiyang and the nuns]].
164** [[spoiler:Future!Ruby exploits this to troll Team RWBY by pretending to seduce Present!RWBY. Not only do Team RWBY react with OhCrap faces ([[LuminescentBlush except]] [[CovertPervert Blake]]), but when Rose later explains [[ThousandYardStare their faces]] to Taiyang and Qrow by saying that she "[[InstantSeduction seduced]] [Taiyang]'s [[AmbiguousSyntax daughter]]," each looks between [[GoodBadGirl Yang]] and [[ChildrenAreInnocent Ruby]] before [[WeirdnessCensor nodding, turning around, and walking away]] with a [[RapidFireNo rapid-fire]] "[[LittleNo nope]]."]]
165* PrecisionFStrike: Several times, usually (but not only) when Rose explains the events and effects of her BadFuture.
166* PsychoForHire: Neo is described as such by Future!Ruby, who (despite calling her [[ColdBloodedTorture a sadist and torturer]]) claims that Neo is "not evil" and may possibly be bribed away from Cinder's side. Rose seems "interested" in her.
167* PuppyDogEyes: Ruby tends to use these a lot. Rose, as her future self, is the only one immune.
168* RageBreakingPoint: Over the course of Chapters 22 and 23, Yang had been struggling to keep her temper in check after a '''whole week''' of discovering just how inhumane the Schnee Dust Company is to its Faunus workers under Weiss's father, and watching Weiss gradually break down in horror in the face of all the incontrovertible evidence of such atrocities. Then after Blake outs herself as a Faunus to Team RWBY, Yang notices scars on one of Blake's ears... the legacy of ear-markers that she had already seen on way too many Faunus that were practically slave laborers for the SDC. Cue Yang rushing to the gym to vent her now uncountable outrage at the realization that '''her partner''' was one of the SDC's countless victims. She almost makes it into the gym, but one of Team CRDL bumps into her at the door and calls her a sexist slur...
169* RedBaron:
170** Apparently, Huntsmen and Huntresses can earn these if they become skilled enough. Nicknames include "Duchess" Glynda, Taiyang the "Unassailable Aegis", Qrow "the Hewer" and "Man of Many Masks" (though he dislikes the latter, as being famed for secrecy is oxymoronic), and Future!Ruby the "Crimson Harvest" (according to her war passcard) - which, as Lie Ren notes, is too ominous a title to be casually given to her or self-applied.
171** Any Grimm [[NominalImportance powerful enough to earn its own name]] also gets a title in the process, such as Izhar the Ravager.
172* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Yang's fire Semblance grants her immunity to fire damage. Combined with her Aura, she can even withstand the raw heat and pressure of molten lava. In contrast to canon Semblances and uses for Aura, this protection doesn't extend to her clothes.
173* TheReveal:
174** Rose reveals to Weiss [[spoiler:the truth about Weiss's father's [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil abuses against the Faunus]].]]
175** At Rose's urging, [[spoiler: Blake comes out about her being a Faunus to her team much earlier than in canon, and with significantly less intra-team drama involved. (''Inter''-team, however, [[GrievousHarmWithABody is another story]].)]] However, [[spoiler: Blake takes her time on revealing the sheer extent of [[LittleBitBeastly her animal features]]]].
176* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Misspelled names include Dr. Bartholomew Oobleck ("Ooblek"), Taiyang Xiao Long (usually "Tai-Yang Xiao-Long", but variations also appear), and Velvet Scarlatina ("Scarletina"); other errors include [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma misused punctuation]], missing articles (a/an/the), and incorrect plurals (referring to Rose's "eyes" despite [[EyePatchAfterTimeSkip her having lost one]]).
177* RuderAndCruder: The characters are more prone to cursing in times of duress compared to the original show. More stoic characters like Ozpin and Glynda generally avoid it.
178* ScarsAreForever: Blake has some on one of her cat ears, the result of "[[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil living conditions]]" in the mines. Yang very nearly [[ThisIsUnforgivable goes]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge berserk]] over this.
179* SchoolBullyingIsHarmless: Played with. As Rose explains it, the only reason why Team CRDL hasn't been called out on their canon {{Jerkass}}ery is because Beacon is a ''warrior'' school: students are expected and encouraged to be able to stand up for themselves. Faculty will typically only step in if it looks like someone might get seriously hurt as a result.
180* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: When attacked by Yang, [[GangOfBullies Team CRDL]] are described as making "girlish shrieks."
181* ScrewYourself: [[spoiler:Future!Ruby invoked this during the forest training trip to troll Present!Team [=RWBY=] and later Taiyang and Qrow.]] Reactions include MassOhCrap, NoJustNoReaction, ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels, LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain, LuminescentBlush, ThousandYardStare, WeirdnessCensor, and RapidFireNo.
182* SeriesContinuityError: Not counting [[OutdatedByCanon discrepancies with canon]] ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' (that is, considering only what appears in this fic):
183** Chapters 3 and 4 show Weiss, Blake, and Yang horrified to see Future!Ruby cleaning human blood and gore off her Crescent Rose, but in Chapter 2 she leaves it in the dorm while she takes a shower and [[GunNut Present!Ruby]] examines it in front of the rest of her team without anyone noticing or commenting on any blood. It may be that said bits were caught up in the internal gearworks instead of dripping off the blade, but the story isn't specific enough.
184** In Chapter 6, Future!Ruby [[TheTease flirts with Glynda in front of Ozpin and Team RWBY]] by saying that [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished Future!Glynda had maintained her beauty through the passage of time]], but in Chapter 15 she tells Ozpin, Glynda, Taiyang, and Qrow that a [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisoned end-of-year feast]] killed all the Beacon staff except for Dr. Oobleck, without excluding Glynda. Then again, [[TheTease she might have said that for the sake of flirting]].
185** In Chapter 12, Future!Ruby claims that Yang's Semblance of fire- and lava-immunity was discovered when Future!Yang fell into an active volcano's magma and emerged unharmed but naked with her clothes burned off. However, Aura is shown in canon (and is not contradicted in this fic) to protect the person's held items and worn belongings (such as clothes and weapons, including armor and improvised weapons) in addition to the person's body. At least this is kept consistent later when Yang removes one glove to pat out a campfire with her bare hand.
186* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Not intentional, but Rose certainly isn't going to pass up the opportunity.
187* ShellShockedVeteran: Rose notes that she is very much this. Ironically, she and Glynda expect Ozpin to object to her teaching at Beacon over this, but this is exactly why Ozpin hires her as Beacon's new combat instructor: she's been through a war, and therefore knows what the students need to learn in order to survive.
188* ShipToShipCombat: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] when Rose uses this to trick [[CovertPervert Blake]] into [[SayingTooMuch admitting she did read]] ''[[PornStash Ninjas of Love]]''.
189* ShoutOut:
190** Taiyang [[IShallTauntYou taunts Izhar the Ravager]] by saying, "[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Your muzzer was a 'amster]], [[Memes/MontyPython and your father smelt of el-]]"
191** [[CovertPervert Blake's]] favorite novel series, ''[[ShowWithinAShow Ninjas of Love]]'', includes characters named [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Naruto, Hinata, and Sasuke]].
192* SimpleSolutionWontWork: After Rose first gets back and explains her story to Ozpin, Ozpin suggests they go and take out Cinder right away now that they have all the information about her. Rose declines since Cinder's followers would go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and cause mass destruction.
193* SlashedThroat: Future!Ruby's finishing blow against Future!Roman Torchwick in Chapter 1.
194* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The reveal of [[spoiler:the extent to which Weiss's father has abused the Faunus eliminates the last shreds of respect Weiss had for him and drives Ruby and Yang to tears (and Yang to rage).]]
195* SmokingIsNotCool: Future!Ruby throws out Present!Qrow's last cigarette during a meeting where she'd just explained her BadFuture, complaining that Future!Qrow had died of smoking-induced lung cancer before Future!Ruby's graduation. Present!Qrow's anger turns to shaken disbelief, and Taiyang agrees that it's an UndignifiedDeath.
196* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Taiyang tests Rose this way, to confirm that she really is Ruby.
197* SophisticatedAsHell: After Present!Team [=RWBY=]'s [[CurbStompBattle ill-advised spar with Future!Ruby]], [[SirSwearsALot Yang]] thinks [[ProperLady Weiss]] "calling someone a sadistic whore had never sounded so classy."
198* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: [[BigBad Future!Cinder]] sent out [[EliteMooks her ranking officers with Huntsman training]] when [[{{Mooks}} low-level conscripts]] failed to kill [[BadassCrew Future!Team RWBY]]. This failed, as [[FutureMeScaresMe Future!Ruby explains to a distraught Present!Team RWBY]], because [[TaughtByExperience Future!Team RWBY]] [[MookDepletion killed them all]], leading [[VillainousBreakdown Future!Cinder]] to PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery.
199* SpitTake: Present!Ruby in the second half Chapter 16, with milk, when Blake explains [[SuggestiveCollision the events of the first half]].
200* StealthExpert: Qrow. Combined with his [[{{Ventriloquism}} Semblance]], he can do pretty much anything in perfect silence.
201* StrongFamilyResemblance: Future!Ruby looks and sounds so much like her late mother Summer, that several characters mistake her for Summer at first glance, including Ozpin and ''Ruby's own father''. Taiyang notes later that "Rose" is taller than her mother was.
202* SuggestiveCollision: In Chapter 16, [[spoiler:Weiss accidentally causes one between Yang and herself by pulling off Yang's (borrowed) ModestyTowel while she stepped out of the bathroom after a shower. Blake]] caught them in the act and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded it]].
203* SuperSpit: Izhar the Ravager is a Grimm Drake that spits blue HollywoodAcid that leaves victims StrippedToTheBone.
204* SuspiciouslySpecificTense: How Blake recognizes that Rose's team successfully killed Izhar the Ravager.
205* TakeThatKiss: When Rose acts like TheTease in front of Taiyang, he jokes that she'll "corrupt the children," then expresses belief that even Future!Ruby is still too innocent regarding romance and sexuality. Rose reacts by French-kissing [[SternTeacher Glynda]] [[HotWitch Goodwitch]] in front of Taiyang and Ozpin.
206-->'''Rose:''' Who said anything about corrupting the ''children''?
207* TakingYouWithMe: Cinder tries to do this to Ruby, culminating in the latter's trip through time.
208* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Cinder will do ''anything'' to get what she wants.
209* TheTease: Rose has grown somewhere between this (apparently it's [[InTheBlood a Xiao Long thing]]) and TheGadfly.
210* ThisIsGonnaSuck:
211** [[SternTeacher Glynda Goodwitch]] and [[CloudCuckooLandersMinder Lie Ren]] react like this to the aftermath of [[BruiserWithASoftCenter Taiyang]] and [[GenkiGirl Nora]] training (present and near-immediate future) with [[ThrowDownTheBomblet their]] [[GrenadeLauncher respective weapons]].
212** Lie Ren knows the [[BadassCrew power]], [[FamedInStory reputations]], and even [[RedBaron sobriquets]] of Glynda, Qrow, Taiyang, and Rose. He knows that it's normal for people to team up in groups of four like they're doing, but when [[AvengersAssemble the four greatest badasses that Ozpin can find are assigned to another mission together]] after [[PyrrhicVictory their last joint mission (mere weeks ago) got them all nearly killed]], [[SpottingTheThread Lie can tell]] they've approached or crossed the GodzillaThreshold and that [[AdventureFriendlyWorld Remnant]]'s [[FromBadToWorse problems are getting worse]].
213* TimeTravel: Natch. Rose breaking the limits of her own Semblance, combined with Cinder's final suicide-strike attack, flings Rose back in time by several years.
214* TitleDrop: Chapter 14 ends with Future!Ruby telling Taiyang and Qrow the story of "A Remnant she hopes to reclaim."
215* TogetherInDeath: A fox Faunus and wolf Faunus couple are killed by Rose during the Dust mine infiltration. Their last act is to kiss each other while bleeding to death, and Rose has to repress her guilt about killing them and keep going.
216* TragicKeepsake: Future!Ruby has Future!Yang's bloodstained scarf, which has "''Property of Yang Xiao Long, official badass''" inscribed on the inside; she shows Present!Yang, who checks and confirms that it matches her own scarf.
217* TrainingFromHell: Rose puts Team RWBY and her first class through this.
218-->'''Rose:''' Hello, everyone. My name is Professor Rouge Rose, but you may address me as Miss, Professor, or Rose. I am your new combat instructor, and this ''(slaps the wall behind her, drawing up shades and revealing a chalkboard with "'''Avoiding the pointy end - 101'''" written on it)'' is your new class.\
219(The class's response was a mixed bag of [[StunnedSilence stunned silence]], [[ThisIsGonnaSuck growing dread]], and smothered laughter.)\
220'''Rose:''' [[GrinOfAudacity Practical application begins in five minutes.]]\
221(The mixed bag [[MassOhCrap became decidedly less mixed]], after that.)
222* {{Understatement}}: Chapter 30 opens with this light-hearted dinner chat involving Qrow and Ozpin:
223--> '''Qrow:''' Ozpin, what is your stance on [[AxesAtSchool teachers murdering students]] [[UnstoppableRage in a blood rage]]?\
224'''Ozpin:''' ([[{{Beat}} Finishes chewing and swallowing a mouthful of food]]) Not positive.\
225'''Qrow:''' What if they were [[ShooOutTheClowns getting rid of only the stupid ones]]? [[TheyWereHoldingYouBack Raising the standards of the school]], as it were?\
226'''Ozpin:''' You'll find my lack of support in your endeavor to cull the student population to be unchanged, unfortunately. (looks [[NoSympathy suitably apologetic]])
227* {{Ventriloquism}}: Qrow's Semblance in a nutshell. It allows him to silently bifurcate people with a SinisterScythe.
228* VerbalTic: Both Rubys, Yang, Taiyang, and Qrow appear fond of using "[[BluntYes yup]]" and "[[LittleNo nope]]" as replies, and both Rubys and Yang in particular like to "pop" the p-sound at the end of both words.
229* VitriolicBestBuds: Taiyang and Qrow. They constantly rip into each other, but it is clear they have been friends since they were teenagers.
230* VomitDiscretionShot: Weiss throws up when she sees Future!Ruby cleaning blood off Crescent Rose. When Future!Ruby explains that [[WarIsHell she's been fighting a war and "lost count years ago" of how many people she's killed]], Yang throws up at the thought of [[ChildrenForcedToKill her younger sister killing her way through a war zone]].
231* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Lampshaded. Between Cinder and her lieutenants posing as students, and the good guys being either students themselves or else teachers, the weekend is the only time anyone is able to get anything significant done.
232* WakingNonSequitur: Ruby wakes up from a dream in Chapter 11 screaming about a tiramisu apocalypse and Weiss' blood tasting delicious with sugar.
233* WarIsHell: The war against Cinder is so bad that once it is over, Future!Ruby states the other three kingdoms intend to annex Vale, simply because there isn't anything ''left''; the economy, population, and infrastructure have been completely wiped out. On a more personal note, the war has cost Future!Ruby an eye, Future!Weiss one of her arms, has left Future!Blake in a months-long coma, and costs Future!Yang her life.
234* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Discussed - killing present!Cinder might not be that difficult in and of itself, but she has so many detailed plans ready to go, and so many loyalists potentially capable of carrying them out after her death, that the good guys can't risk alerting her to their awareness of her because her (or her subordinates') revenge would endanger innocent people.
235* WhyWontYouDie: Cinder's first line in the story, which sets the tone for how things have been going in the future.
236* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Taiyang's response when he sees Qrow's new ''[[HollywoodAcid acid-burn]]'' [[GoodScarsEvilScars "good" facial scar]].
237* YouNeedToGetLaid: Yang jokes like this about [[SternTeacher Glynda]] [[HotWitch Goodwitch]], [[spoiler:but she (and the rest of Team RWBY) is shocked (and [[DidYouJustHaveSex Yang is amused]], and [[CovertPervert Blake is turned on]]) when [[RhetoricalRequestBlunder Rose does successfully seduce Glynda]].]]

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